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In this oral history interview, Phil Conron, 53 years old, discusses growing up in Toronto in the 1940s, trying to fit in with other boys in school, and early adolescent sexual experiences with other young men. He discusses his involvement with the…

Part of an oral history project that collected stories from anonymous men who were arrested as found-ins during the 1981 Bathhouse Raids in Toronto.

Phillip, who was the treasurer of the Right to Privacy Committee, discusses his sexuality and…

This video is an excerpt of an interview (2004) with Rev. Dr. Brent Hawkes, of the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto. He discusses his role in performing the first legal same-sex marriages in Canada, which he was able to perform by taking…

Richard Fung is an academic, writer, video maker, and has been involved in gay and queer activism for the past thirty years, including founding the group Gay Asians of Toronto in 1979. In 1984, Fung shot Orientations, a film that focused on gay…

Richard Hudler is a community developer, counsellor, artist, and activist. His work focuses on AIDS, with the HIV/AIDS Community Centre, the Homophile Association of London Ontario, the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Rights Organization, and other…

Roy Mitchell was an arts director at Trinity Square Video in Toronto and is an artist and activist. Mitchell served on the Pride Toronto board of directors, aiming to change Pride from the inside, and notes that community can be destroyed by…

Sky Gilbert is a queer artist, and as a result became a spokesperson. Gilbert is also a playwright, novelist, and poet. Gilbert argues that Gay Liberation is a thing of the past due to lack of support and urges an ongoing queer sensibility.…

Susan Gapka is a community activist, community organizer, and founded the Trans Lobby Group (TLG). The TLG was formed to educate people, gain political agency for trans people, and develop partnerships between trans and other groups.…

Syrus Marcus Ware is an artist and activist. Ware is involved with Blackness Yes! that puts on Blockorama every year, which looks at Queer and Trans Liberation from a Black queer perspective and remains a place of resistance at Pride Toronto. In…

Tim McCaskell is a self-described gay dinosaur. He was a member of the Body Politic Collective, the Public Action Committee after the Toronto bathhouse raids in the 1980s and was a founding member of AIDS Action Now. McCaskell has also been…